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Journal of Tropical Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 1687-9686Verify ISSN ↗1687-9694Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 80 / 669 | 88th | Q1 |
| Parasitology | 17 / 82 | 79th | Q1 |
| Microbiology | 84 / 194 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Journal of Tropical Medicine is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 80 of 669), Q1 in Parasitology (rank 17 of 82) and Q2 in Microbiology (rank 84 of 194), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Tropical Medicine is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.714, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,630 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Tropical Medicine is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1687-9686 and its online ISSN is 1687-9694.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Tropical Medicine has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 2.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #132 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Journal of Tropical Medicine published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 95. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (13%), Ethiopia (11.5%) and Türkiye (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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